You're right.  It's much better if every generation we have two consoles with comparable power, features, and software libraries, and then one other console that is inferior in the hardware department and only appeals to a niche audience in the software department.

If only the movie and TV industries were like that... imagine having a brand of TVs and DVD / Blu-Ray players that weren't on par with their competitors from a technical perspective, and that you could only watch say Disney movies and shows on but not much else.  I'm sure that would be a rousing success.

It's hardly irrelevant, and if you had read the rest of the explanation in my following posts you would have already realized that. The issue here isn't whether or not there was footage shown; the issue at hand is the lack of major new surprising games that would appeal to others besides the standard hardcore Nintendo crowd.

Even if you were to count every single one of those games as first being announced at E3, the problem is that none of those games will make the Wii U appeal to much besides those who have bought Nintendo consoles in the past. In order for the Wii U to be more appealing; read as: appeal to more people, it needed to announce new games that weren't your typical Nintendo affair. Perhaps some more third party exclusive deals like they did with Platinum, or even (heaven forbid) a new first party IP.

The Wii U's lineup coming into this E3 wasn't enough to convince people to buy a Wii U, and said lineup hasn't really improved coming out of E3.

#1 and #2 constitute that Nintendo take a "same old shit" strategy of the other big 2 manufacturers, which I doubt they'd want to get into "Red ocean" strategy, considering what happened the last time that they did that with the GameCube.

#4 is difficult in the fact that Nintendo's IP does not show vast improvements with graphical leaps, due to the character design. That would involve having to make things more "realistic".

#3 and #5 have some merit to them. Some people saw the U stylus from Ubisoft on the Wii and assumed that the Wii U was just a Wii with a bundled stylus. The average consumer doesn't keep track of 3rd party goods, they just assume something on a Nintendo console is Nintendo's doing...

- Change the name to Wii 2.

- Anticipate the increased difficulty of HD development and take steps to ensure Pikmin 3 arrives within the launch window.

- Give it a beefier CPU and 4GB of RAM. It doesn't need to be as powerful as PS4/Xbone, but making it an easily noticeable step up from PS3/360 would help.

- Make games that don't like look HD Wii games with texture packs. Launch with at least one showcase title, like a HD Metroid.

- Do some actual decent advertising.

Take those next gen games and run them at 480p and you get xbox original games. Brilliant logic you got there sir. Hats off. 

And I find it fascinating how you go around from thread to thread trying to preach to people how WiiU's GPU is some never before seen technology that can pull some miraculous performance from such a small package  - I just can't figure out is it your job to do that or it is just a matter of "blind faith".

Oh, and "without a single clue" - please, do go back to your Phantasy Kingdom - I base my estimates on actual knowledge and research and not, like you, on pretending to be one of self-proclaimed Nintendo's Witnesses who are given divine right to spew endless nonsense without any actual knowledge about AMD's GPU architectures, fab processes and TDPs.

I told you before and I'm telling you again - go dig deep into matter and come up with some actual knowledge in your posts, and until then don't even bother trying any conversation with me.

To make this Console better there's gonna be a couple changes.

1. They need a price drop: i think $50 below for their Deluxe Version. This would then cost $300, i personally still wouldnt buy it cause of other reasons i will explain.

2. NEED MORE MEMORY: i mean seriously, 8GB and 32GB. This is next gen, they have to offer more than that. im thinking 400GB or 500GB. even tho i would be happy with 300GB.

3. MORE Power: They need an updated version, more RAM, better RAM. Devs dont want to deal with a shity console, they need the power the devs will use. If not, there will be no games for the WiiU.

4. Include the Pro Controller: face it Nintendo, nobody really likes the Gamepad other than small uses like Netflix, but i can do that on a $100 Tablet. You need to include the WiiU Pro Controller, so gaming on your console can be fun. i think 2 Nunchuks, 1 Gamepad, and 1 Pr controller would do.

5. More games: You need to make more Exclusive games for the WiiU. You need more Marios, more Donkey Kong, and more Zelda. But you also need new great IP's that dont only appeal to The Asian Market. games like The Last of Us, HALO, GEARS, God of war, and Forza.

i think if Nintendo made all of this happen, they will have a chance at being able to see the Generation after next.

LMFAO if you think Mario, Donkey Kong, and Zelda only appeal to "The Asian Market."

put a playstation logo on it is the only thing that will work for devs.

- Well, you gotta admit that Nintendo has their own version of the "same old shit" strategy, where every gen they rely solely on Mario and co. to sell consoles, these days more than ever before.  People buy PlayStations and Xboxes for a variety of reasons that have changed each generation, but with Nintendo it's always Mario and Zelda or bust.

- There was a time when Nintendo's IPs DID in fact display vast improvements and graphical leaps, but that was back when Nintendo actually put out new hardware that was a huge leap over its predecessor and on par with the leading technology of the day.  The jumps from SMB1-3 to SMW, and then to SM64, and then to SSB / Sunshine for example were all huge despite retaining similar art styles and not needing to go for the ultra realistic look.  Now we have Galaxy / 3D World which hardly show any improvements over their predecessors, and the NSMB titles, which all look similar from the DS right on up to the Wii U.